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Red Bull: New Year No Limits event to break two records simultaneously

November 16, 2011

Levi LaVallee will attempt to jump his snowmobile over San Diego Bay on New Year's Eve.

This year's Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. will see Levi LaVallee jump his snowmobile over San Diego Bay alongside Robbie Maddison's motorcycle as both aim to beat the current world distance records in their respective disciplines on New Year's Eve.

LaVallee is a seven-time Winter X Games medalist and a champion snocross racer. He is widely known for becoming the first person to double-backflip a snowmobile in 2009 at the Winter X Games.

Maddison is an accomplished freestyle motocross rider with an X Games silver medal in 2010 in Moto X Best Trick and two wins on the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour (Calgary 2009 and Madrid 2010). He also has a successful history of record-breaking achievements and globally captivating feats including backflipping across the Tower Bridge in London and clearing the Cornith Canal in Greece.

LaVallee planned to attempt to break the snowmobile distance record last New Year's Eve but crashed during training for the attempt. He has fully recovered and is still set on breaking the record.

Maddison started the New Year No Limits series in 2007 by jumping his motorcycle 322 feet over a football field in Las Vegas and followed it up in 2008 by jumping onto--and off of--the 96-foot-tall Arc De Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas.

This year, LaVallee and Maddison will jump at the same time over 300 feet of water from the North Park to the South Park at San Diego's Embarcadero Marina Park. LaVallee will attempt to break his own record of 361 feet, while Maddison will be aiming for a leap of more than 400 feet to eclipse the current record of 391 feet.

"I am so pumped to be able to come back to Red Bull: New Year No Limits," LaVallee said in a Red Bull statement. "Last year obviously didn't go the way I was hoping, and I am excited to have another chance at this amazing opportunity."

Maddison added, "Jumping long distances is a passion of mine, and I'm excited to come back for New Year's Eve and sail over San Diego Harbor. Four hundred feet is my goal. It's not all about getting the world record to me; it's more about understanding this feat and the commitment ahead to achieving what most would consider an impossible jump."

The event will start at 11 p.m. Eastern and will be shown on ESPN, ESPNHD and ESPN3 following the Chick-Fil-A Bowl. On-site viewing will be free to spectators at both parks. Gates will open at 6 p.m. Pacific.